Israel Planted Explosives in Pagers Sold to Hezbollah, Officials Say.Exploding Pagers Targeting Hezbollah Kill 11 and Wound Thousands, Lebanon Says

 

Israel Planted Explosives in Pagers Sold to Hezbollah, Officials Say

Small amounts of explosive were implanted in beepers that Hezbollah had ordered from a Taiwanese company, according to American and other officials.

Exploding Pagers Targeting Hezbollah Kill 11 and Wound Thousands, Lebanon Says

The Iranian-backed militant group, which uses pagers to safeguard communications, blamed Israel for the attack. Israel declined to comment.

Riding a Hobbyhorse: horseplay, hold one's horses. 比賽

Participants in Hobbyhorse competitions who invest real time, money and tears in the sport say it is much more than just horseplay for the ponytail set.

Riding a Hobbyhorse: Yes, It’s an Organized Sport

Thousands of young competitors in Finland are competing in equestrian jumping and dressage events while riding horses on a stick; telling naysayers to hold their horses.

WSJ.COM

Germany's first hobby horsing championship will gallop through Frankfurt this weekend. Hundreds of young riders will hop on their wooden stick to be judged on various criteria, including precision, timing and elegance. 

 

The sport, which comes from Finland, has seen a huge surge internationally in recent years: the United States and Australia also held their first championships this year. 

 

In the dressage category, officials will be looking at the rider's posture, skills and body positioning. Are they using elegant leg movements, with their toes touching the ground first? Are they using various speeds and gaits in their routine? 

 

Style jumpers will also be judged on their posture, as well as jumping over the center of the obstacles, sticking the landing and keeping a steady pace. 

 

While organizers want to promote empowerment and acceptance through a positive and inclusive experience for competitors, critics have pounced on the activity. Many riders have faced bullying and misogynistic comments online. But as the sport is growing, the riders are more and more taken seriously. According to the German Hobby Horsing Association, there are about 5,000 active hobby horsers in Germany and 230 clubs. Around 1,500 spectators are expected at the championship this weekend.

📸: (1) dpa; (2,3,4) AP

hold one's horses

phrase of hold

1. 1.

   informal

   wait a moment.

anatomize, comminute. returned to one of his hobby horses. hobby horsing. The post was liked more than 46,000 times

Dissecting Elon Musk’s Tweets: Memes, Rants, Private Parts and an Echo Chamber

By Sheera Frenkel, Martín González Gómez and Ella KoezeJan. 31, 2023

剖析 Elon Musk 的推文：模因、咆哮和回音室

The day after Thanksgiving, nearly one month after Elon Musk became the owner of Twitter, he returned to one of his hobby horses. “I’m just fighting for free speech in America,” he wrote in a tweet.
One of 28 that he posted that day — beginning just after midnight, following messages about how tasty his holiday meal was — the free speech tweet was in response to two followers who were aggrieved about how Mr. Musk was being treated since acquiring the social network in late October. The post was liked more than 46,000 times.

comminute	(verb) Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading.
Synonyms:	bray, mash, crunch, grind
Usage:	The chef comminuted the spices in his mortar for several minutes before sprinkling them on the chicken.

comminute[com・mi・nute]

• 発音記号[kɑ'mənjùːt | kɔ'minjùːt]

[動](他)

1 …を粉末にする, 粉砕する

comminuted fracture 粉砕骨折.

2 〈土地・財産などを〉細分する.

còm・mi・nú・tion

[名]

'Columbine'

By DAVE CULLEN

Cullen’s nuanced account anatomizes the massacre, showing how readily truth was obscured by myth. (Twelve, $26.99.) a·nat·o·mize (ə-năt'ə-mīz') tr.v., -mized, -miz·ing, -miz·es.

1. To dissect (an animal or other organism) to study the structure and relation of the parts.
2. To analyze in minute detail: "Pynchon is the devil who went beyond the grave to anatomize the remains of the modern soul" (Josephine Hendin). See synonyms at analyze.

anatomization a·nat'o·mi·za'tion (-mĭ-zā'shən) n.

Germany's first hobby horsing championship will gallop through Frankfurt this weekend. Hundreds of young riders will hop on their wooden stick to be judged on various criteria, including precision, timing and elegance. 

 

The sport, which comes from Finland, has seen a huge surge internationally in recent years: the United States and Australia also held their first championships this year. 

 

In the dressage category, officials will be looking at the rider's posture, skills and body positioning. Are they using elegant leg movements, with their toes touching the ground first? Are they using various speeds and gaits in their routine? 

 

Style jumpers will also be judged on their posture, as well as jumping over the center of the obstacles, sticking the landing and keeping a steady pace. 

 

While organizers want to promote empowerment and acceptance through a positive and inclusive experience for competitors, critics have pounced on the activity. Many riders have faced bullying and misogynistic comments online. But as the sport is growing, the riders are more and more taken seriously. According to the German Hobby Horsing Association, there are about 5,000 active hobby horsers in Germany and 230 clubs. Around 1,500 spectators are expected at the championship this weekend.

📸: (1) dpa; (2,3,4) AP

effortful, arduous transition, weighty.

The Wall Street Journal tops its world-wide news box with a scoop on ailing North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's apparent plan to begin transitioning power, according to anonymous U.S. officials. Unlike the last power change in North Korea 15 years ago, there is no clear successor to Kim, though his brother-in-law and third son are considered top candidates.


With Kindle, Can You Tell It’s Proust?
By JOANNE KAUFMAN The publishing world is all caught up in weighty questions about the Kindle and other electronic books and readers.



Ginsburg's Illness Puts Focus on Choices Ahead for Obama
The announcement this week that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer served as an early reminder of the weighty judicial choices ahead for President Obama, who must fill urgent vacancies on appeals courts and federal trial courts as well as potential...
(By Carrie Johnson, The Washington Post)




Arduous Transition Awaits Next President
If Sen. Barack Obama wakes up as the president-elect on Nov. 5, he will immediately assume responsibility for fixing a shredded economy while the Bush administration is still in office. If Sen. John McCain wins the election, he will face an imminent confrontation over spending with a Democratic...
(By Michael D. Shear, Michael Abramowitz, Anne E. Kornblut and Shailagh Murray, The Washington Post)

One to one with peace worker Alfons Schabarum

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Alfons Schabarum

The International Day of Peace provides an opportunity for individuals, organisations and nations to create practical acts of peace on a shared date. It was established by the United Nations in 1981 and since 2002 has been observed on September 21st.

The tragic events of September the 11th, seven years ago shocked people around the world. While the American President waged a war on terror as a consequence, war seemed not to be the right answer for Alfons Schabarum. The management consultant, in his mid-fifties, thought that he had to get active again to promote peace for the rest of his working life.
In this week’s Inspired Minds, Alfons Schabarum talks to Anke Rasper about his decision to give up his day job, move to Sri Lanka and work fulltime as a peace worker, and the arduous task of helping people to resolve conflicts.

weigh (INFLUENCE) 

verb [I usually + adverb or preposition]
(of something such as a fact or an event) to have an influence or be important:
Easy access to a railway network weighed heavily with us when we chose a site for the new factory.

weight 
noun [U]
respect, influence, trust or importance:
Her experience does give her opinions quite a bit of weight.
After he was voted out of power, few people attached much weight to what he said.
Radical views don't carry much weight anymore.

weighted 

prepared and structured in a way that is likely to produce a particular effect, usually an advantage, rather than any other:
The system of benefits is weighted in favour of those who have children.

weighty 
adjective
describes a subject, book or piece of work that is important or serious:
weighty matters/issues

ar・du・ous

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━━ a. 骨の折れる; 勤勉な.
ar・du・ous・ly　━━ ad.

arduous Show phonetics
adjective
difficult, tiring and needing a lot of effort:
an arduous climb/task/journey


effortful

adjective

1. Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength: arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, exacting, exigent, formidable, hard, heavy, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, severe, taxing, tough, trying, weighty. See heavy/light.
2. Not n
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   atural or spontaneous: contrived, forced, labored, strained. See true/false.

transition Show phonetics
noun [C or U]
a change from one form or type to another, or the process by which this happens:
The health-care system is in transition at the moment.
There will be an interim government to oversee the transition to democracy.

transitional Show phonetics
adjective
a transitional government
Eastern Slavonia is to revert to Croatian government rule next year after a transitional period under U.N. administration.

Transitional Jusice, facilitate, facilitator. 過渡時期的暫定的司法

 “Facilitators help us put labels on the pictures so that the caregivers can help the children get familiar with the new faces,” she said. “I weep to think of them holding those albums and wondering why the people that promised they would be back in a few weeks have never come back.”
 她說，“領養機構的人幫我們給照片貼上標籤，好讓照看孩子的人幫孩子熟悉這些新面孔。他們會拿着這些相冊想，那些承諾過幾周就會再來的人，怎麼再也沒出現呢？一想到這樣的情景，我就忍不住流淚。”


如今為了推廣這份報告的 閱讀人口與深化教育，東帝汶政府在「國際轉型正義中心」（International Center for Transitional Justice）的協助之下，推出新版的總結報告。原始報告僅有英文、印尼文與葡萄牙文三種版本，新的插圖版簡化原先超過兩千頁的內容，輔以插圖與漫畫， 以東帝汶本地語言「德頓語」（Tetum）出版。希望能提供學校教育與一般公民團體，作為推動人權教育與歷史教育上的有力工具。此書已在八月底的紀念公投 11週年儀式上，由總統霍塔（Jose Ramos-Horta）親自公佈。

The International Journal of Transitional Justice

不知怎回事 台灣將翻譯成 Transitional Justice轉型正義
所以 轉型變成對應 transformation和 transition
這是很不好的翻譯

Transitional justice generally refers to a range of approaches that states may use to address past human rights violations and includes both judicial and non-judicial approaches. They include series of actions or policies and their resulting institutions, which may be enacted at a point of political transition from violence and repression to societal stability. Transitional justice is informed by a society’s desire to rebuild social trust, repair a fractured justice system, and build a democratic system of governance. The core value of transitional justice is the notion of justice: not necessarily criminal justice, but other forms of justice as well. This notion and the political transformation, such as regime change or transition from conflict, are thus linked toward a more peaceful, certain and democratic future.
The term ‘transitional justice’ has recently received greater attention by both academics and policymakers. It has also generated interest in the fields of political and legal discourse, especially in transitional societies. In period of political transitions, from authoritarian, dictatorial regimes or from civil conflicts to a democracy, transitional justice has often provided opportunities for such societies to address past human rights abuses, mass atrocities, or other forms of severe trauma in order to facilitate a smooth transition into a more democratic or peaceful future. This article discusses the concept of transitional justice: the definition, its historical roots and development, various models, modern-day trends of application in transitional states and its future in a transitional and democratization discourse.




facilitator 輔導員等

facilitate

音節fa・cil・i・tate 発音記号/fəsílətèɪt/

【動詞】 【他動詞】

〈事を〉容易にする，楽にする，促進[助長]する 《★【用法】 この語は人を主語として用いない》.

用例

His father's connections facilitated his employment. 彼は父親のコネのおかげで就職が容易だった.

［FACILITY+‐ATE^２; 【名詞】 facilitation］

 

 

transitional

[形]移り変わる；過渡的［期］の

a transitional government
暫定政権

transitional relief
((英))（新税制導入時の）暫定的優遇措置.

tran・si・tion・al・ly

[副]

轉型正義是Transitinal Justice (過渡時期司法)處心積慮的誤導亂譯呀!!! -- Justice 是司法，不是什麼正義呀! 白癡嗎?

轉型正義是Transitinal Justice (過渡時期司法)處心積慮的誤導亂譯呀!!! -- Justice 是司法，不是什麼正義呀! 白癡嗎?

!春生牧師 在參加 ⭕轉型正義與時差政治──於濟南教會 Chè-lâm Presbyterian Church in Taipei 。

 

這是我聽過「轉型正義」議題，最清晰的一場演講。推薦大家看直播。-- 

約有一百個國家都在進行轉型正義，但在台灣卻被誤導成政黨鬥爭。

德國🇩🇪清算模式

南非🇿🇦和解模式

但台灣卻是半套模式

直播

https://www.youtube.com/live/7A-sv4PidJw?feature=shared

Fred Chiu Chiu

轉型正義是Transitinal Justice (過渡時期司法)的誤導亂譯呀!!!!

“There are many here among us Who feel that life is but a joke But you and I, we've been through that And this is not our fate So let us not talk falsely now The hour is getting late”

 

Not Dark Yet  · 

“There must be some way out of here”

Said the joker to the thief

“There's too much confusion

I can't get no relief

Businessmen, they drink my wine

Plowmen dig my earth

None of them along the line

Know what any of it is worth”

“No reason to get excited”

The thief, he kindly spoke

“There are many here among us

Who feel that life is but a joke

But you and I, we've been through that

And this is not our fate

So let us not talk falsely now

The hour is getting late”

All along the watchtower

Princes kept the view

While all the women came and went

Barefoot servants too

Outside, in the distance

A wildcat did growl

Two riders were approaching

The wind began to howl.

Photo of Bob Dylan as Alias from "Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid" by Sam Peckinpah (1973)

所有心情：

4,0254,025

cagey spin, chary, payback, flummery, tingling. oatmeal or wheatmeal. his colleague cagily spun a tale about the confluence in Scotland of the River Gell and the River Mann.

With his hyphenated surname and cosmopolitan ways, Dr. Gell-Mann liked to keep people wondering about his pedigree. The physicist Sheldon Glashow once recalled a party at which his colleague cagily spun a tale about the confluence in Scotland of the River Gell and the River Mann.

Culture and Lifestyle

Ryan Liebe for The New York Times

An Oatmeal Cookie for Raisin Haters

A puddle of blueberry maple jam is stuffed inside these tender, gently spiced treats.

cagey spin, chary, payback, flummery,  tingling刺痛。.     oatmeal or wheatmeal 燕麥片或小麥粉

謹慎的旋轉、謹慎、回報、、笨拙 

 Political Stagecraft in China’s Trial of Fallen Official

By EDWARD WONG and JONATHAN ANSFIELD 6:34 PM ET

Analysts say the spectacle is an effort by China’s leaders to convince allies of Bo Xilai that he had his say in court, and that the long sentence he is expected to get is based on evidence, not political payback.

 



  It seems to me now that Solomon was the truest man who ever spoke, and yet that he a little managed the truth with a view to popular conservatism; or else there have been many corruptions and interpolations of the text--In reading some of Goethe's sayings, so worshipped by his votaries, I came across this, " Live in the all." That is to say, your separate identity is but a wretched one,--good; but get out of yourself, spread and expand yourself, and bring to yourself the tinglings of life that are felt in the flowers and the woods, that are felt in the planets Saturn and Venus, and the Fixed Stars. What nonsense! Here is a fellow with a raging toothache. "My dear boy," Goethe says to him, "you are sorely afflicted with that tooth; but you must live in the all, and then you will be happy!" As with all great genius, there is an immense deal of flummery in Goethe, and in proportion to my own contact with him, a monstrous deal of it in me.體驗一切. corruption腐敗; 堕落; 贈収賄; （原文などの）崩れ; 【言】転訛, なまり; 【コンピュータ】（データの）破壊.

BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Memoir Is Palin’s Payback to McCain Campaign
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Sarah Palin’s new book is part cagey spin job and part earnest autobiography. Its most compelling sections deal not with politics, but with her life in Alaska.

2008年12月，維基解密創辦人朱利安．亞桑傑（Julian Assange）因被控性侵在英國倫敦遭到逮捕，各大企業為求自保，立即封殺維基解密與亞桑傑，「匿名者」便發起「報復行動」（Operation Payback）還以顏色，包括萬事達卡、威士卡、eBay等急欲與維基解密切割的知名企業網站，全都遭殃。

Qaeda Link Seen in Deadly Blast in Yemen Capital

By ROBERT F. WORTH and ERIC SCHMITT 5 minutes ago

A huge suicide bombing on Monday left hundreds dead and wounded, stunning the beleaguered government and delivering a stark setback to the American campaign against Al Qaeda’s regional franchise.

chary	(adjective) Very cautious; wary.
Synonyms:	cagey
Usage:	She was chary of the risks associated with opening her own business.

Definition of payback

noun

• 1 [mass noun] profit from an investment equal to the initial outlay: a long time lag between investment and payback [count noun]:we aim to achieve a payback of the cost within eight years

2 an act of revenge or retaliation: the drive-by shootings are mainly paybacks

ca·gey ca·gy (kā'jē)

also adj., -gi·er, -gi·est.

1. Wary; careful: a cagey avoidance of a definite answer.
2. Crafty; shrewd: a cagey lawyer.

[Origin unknown.]

cagily ca'gi·ly adv.
caginess ca'gi·ness n.



spin
n.

1. The act of spinning.
2. A swift whirling motion.
3. A state of mental confusion.
4. Informal. A short drive in a vehicle: took a spin in the new car.
5. The flight condition of an aircraft in a nose-down, spiraling, stalled descent.
6. 1. A distinctive point of view, emphasis, or interpretation: "Dryden . . . was adept at putting spin on an apparently neutral recital of facts" (Robert M. Adams).
   2. A distinctive character or style: an innovative chef who puts a new spin on traditional fare.
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8. 
   
9. 
   
10. Physics.
    1. The intrinsic angular momentum of a subatomic particle. Also called spin angular momentum.
    2. The total angular momentum of an atomic nucleus.
    3. A quantum number expressing spin angular momentum.
    
    
    
    

    flummery

    Pronunciation: /ˈflʌm(ə)ri/
    Definition of flummery

    noun (plural flummeries)

    [mass noun]

    • 1 meaningless or insincere flattery or conventions:she hated the flummery of public relations

    • 2a  sweet dish made with beaten eggs, sugar, and flavourings.

    Origin:

    early 17th century (denoting a dish made with oatmeal or wheatmeal boiled to a jelly): from Welsh llymru; perhaps related to llymrig 'soft, slippery'
    'Definition of tingle

    verb

    • experience or cause to experience a slight prickling or stinging sensation: [no object]:she was tingling with excitement [with object]:a standing ovation that tingled your spine

    noun

    • a slight prickling or stinging sensation:a tingle of anticipation

    Origin:

    late Middle English: perhaps a variant of tinkle. The original notion was perhaps 'ring in response to a loud noise', but the term was very early applied to the result of hearing something shocking